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William Saroyan

William Saroyan was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is his native Fresno, the center of Armenian immigrant life in California. Some of his best-known works are The Time of Your Life, My Name Is Aram and My Heart's in the Highlands.

Background

Ethnicity:
Saroyan was born in 1908 in Fresno, California, to a poor family of Armenian immigrants.

Saroyan, William was born on August 31, 1908 in Fresno. Son of Armenak and Takoohi (Saroyan) S. (of Bitlis, Armenia).

Education

Educated public schools, Fresno, California.

Career

He started as a postman and no one of his relatives couldn't imagine that there will be a day, when this name will be mentioned among the American writers such as Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Caldwell.